Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag
July 29 2023The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read moreIndirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
July 28 2023Interesting research: “(Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs“:
Abstract: We demonstrate how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection...
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Fooling an AI Article Writer
July 27 2023World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it....
Read moreBackdoor in TETRA Police Radios
July 26 2023Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an...
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New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
July 25 2023The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an “AI system” to detect people who don’t pay...
Read moreSupposedly Google is starting a pilot program of disabling Internet connectivity from employee computers: The company will disable internet access on the select desktops, with the exception of internal web-based...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
July 22 2023Neat:
Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this squid’s skin in an Instagram video taken by...
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AI and Microdirectives
July 21 2023Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.
All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by...
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